Improvement in flag-staff holders



UNITED STATES PATENT OF IC EDwARD'PINoUs AND CLARENCE HART, OF PHILADELPHI PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLAG-STAFF HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,055, dated February 1, 1876; application filed January 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, EDWARD PINCUS and CLARENCE A. HART, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Flag- Pole Holder, of. which the following is a specification:

'Our invention relates to an improvement in holders through the mediumof which flagpoles may be attached to window-sills; and the main object of our invention is to construct a holder for the ready removal and replacing of the pole.

This object we attain in the manner which we will now proceed to describe, referencebe- .ing had to the accompanying drawing, in

Figure 1- representslthe two main parts of the holder detached from each other 5' Fig. 2, a sectional view, showing the two parts of the holder connected together; and Figs. 3 and 4, different devices for retaining and. releasing the pole.

Our improved holder consists of two main parts, A and B, the former of which has a ring or socket, a, for receiving the inner end of the flag-pole, this ring projecting from and forming a part of a plate, b, through lugs on which pass screws into the window-sill. Between a central raised portion, d, of this plate I) and the window-sill, there is a recesslforthe reception of the projection e of the part B, the said projection'being secured in its place hya set screw, f, or other suitable fastening- The arm h of the portion B of the holder has, at its outer end, a ring or bearing, 41, for receiving the flag-pole, and at or near the point where the arm meets the projection there is a lip, m, bearing against the sill of the window.

The retaining device shown in Fig. 4 may I be substituted for the hinged segment. In

this modification all that is necessary is to wvithdraw the pin in order to release. the

pole from the end of the arm.

The portion A of the holder isso formed that it will occupy a position on the windowsill outside the sash, so as not to interferewith the movements of the same,-0r theclosing of the shutters, the plate with its ring or socket forming a permanent fixture on the sill, from which the portion B may be withdrawn when the display of a flag is not required.

We claim as our invention 1. The within -described fiagpole holder, consisting of the portion-A and its ring or socket a, constructed for attachment to the window-sill, as set forth, and the part B,hav ing its outer end'constructed for the reception of the pole, and its inner end for attachment to and detachment from the substantially as specified.

2. The 'portioniB of the holder, in combination with a socket or bearing for the pole, and a device for permitting the direct vertical insertion or withdrawal of the pole from the said bearing or socket, all substantially. as described.

In testimony. whereof we have signed our names to this specification in- 'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ED. PINCU S. CLARENCE A. HART. Witnesses: 1 V

HARRY HowsoN, J r., HARRY SMITH.

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